Erja Manto

The film stars the familiar characters from the Finnish TV show The Autocrats in a fairytale where the inhabitants of a small Finnish village have to defend themselves against a despotic emperor. (Wikipedia.org)

Director, film historian, professor Peter von Bagh takes us on a stroll down the memory lane, to the 1950's small-town Oulu, the town where he grew up. This extensive film essay utilizes a variety of archive materials: Film footage, still photos, paintings and other art works. The film paints a kaleidoscopic view of the arctic town and its spirit, awakening one youth, one era, one town magically. The movie is personal and local as well as general and universal. (muisteja.illume.fi)

A family like a nation: Finland's painful path to independence, its development from a poor rural backwater to a prime example of progress and liberalism as seen through three generations of the Aho family. (filmfestivalrotterdam.com)

A small TV studio condenses the entire evening's program into half an hour. Studio Julmahuvi's regular programming includes children's programs, domestic police series, German detective series, news, documentaries, and much more. (imdb)